Gabriele Britz

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Gabriele Britz (born October 1, 1968 in Seeheim-Jugenheim ) is a German lawyer and a judge at the Federal Constitutional Court since February 2, 2011 . She is professor of public law and European law at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen .

Life

After graduating from high school at the Wöhlerschule in Frankfurt am Main, Britz studied law at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt from 1987 to 1992 and received his doctorate there in 1993 on the subject of "Local energy supply according to national and European law with special consideration of municipal design options" . She passed the second state examination in law in 1997. In 2000 she received her habilitation , subject of the habilitation thesis: "Cultural Rights and Constitution - About the Legal Dealing with Cultural Difference". In 2001 she received the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize of the German Research Foundation for her habilitation thesis . After positions at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena , Bielefeld University and in Frankfurt, she has been Professor of Public Law and European Law at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen since 2001.

In addition, she was involved in 2001 and 2002 as a member of the UN Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD). From 2003 to 2009 she sat on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research at Bielefeld University. From 2004 to 2006 she held the position of Dean of Studies at the Law Faculty of the Justus Liebig University in Giessen. From 2009 to 2010 she was dean of the department. Since 2008 she has been a member of the German Research Foundation's Legal Advisory Board .

On December 17, 2010, she was elected by the Federal Council on the proposal of the SPD to succeed Christine Hohmann-Dennhardt, who left the first Senate in January 2011, as judge of the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe.

Britz is married and has one son.

Awards

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ New judge at the Federal Constitutional Court ( Memento from December 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), in: Allgemeine Zeitung online from December 17, 2010, accessed on December 21, 2010
  2. ↑ Christian Rath: Legal high-flyer . In: the daily newspaper online from December 17, 2010, accessed on December 21, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Britz, Gabriele
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, university professor and designated judge at the Federal Constitutional Court
DATE OF BIRTH 1st October 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Jugenheim (Seeheim-Jugenheim)